Izzet No. 288 [High B4 Combo/Control] by Z3R0137

Format: Commander

Commander: Vivi Ornitier

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 75

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity cEDH spellslinger storm and combo deck helmed by Vivi Ornitier. The primary game plan converts Vivi's passive ability—which deals 1 damage to each opponent and grows her power whenever a noncreature spell is cast—into a game-ending card advantage engine via Curiosity, Ophidian Eye, or Tandem Lookout. Because Vivi damages all three opponents simultaneously, each noncreature spell draws three cards, enabling an unbroken chain through rituals, zero-mana artifacts, and cantrips. Vivi's {0} activated ability supplies explosive mana equal to her power to sustain high-cost spells or pivot into Underworld Breach and Brain Freeze. Backup win conditions include the infinite untap loop of Isochron Scepter and Dramatic Reversal. A dense suite of zero-mana countermagic and redirection spells protects the combo turn, allowing the deck to close games decisively on Turn 3.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dizzy Spell
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fiery Islet
  • 1 Flame of Anor
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Gut Shot
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Longshot, Rebel Bowman
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Quicksilver Elemental
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reiterate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reverberate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Trickbind
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wizard's Staff